Well, after all that work - I got the top done, added a boarder and did the quilting.

I hated the boarder the entire time I was quilting it.

It has little circles in it - Now that its finished I really like the boarder - I HATE how the inner red strip rippled so badly. Im so grossed out looking at it.

I might go in and sew it flat and do a hide and seek sort of applique strip over the entire thing.

Has anyone done that to a quilt b-4?

Im furious over those ripples -- I can let lots go in quilting -- but after doing o much work and making a nice top -- Im really angry about the ripples on that strip. And it is all the way around the quilt a mess.

Holley moley, Batman! That is your most stunning quilt yet!!!! Love the red, love the design and the sense of movement. I had to go looking for the ripple because honestly, I would had not seen it until you mentioned it. It is a beautiful quilt. And it has so much more going for than the effort it would take to fix it.

a) I don't think it is as bad as you think
b) have you tried starching it a little and ironing it?
c) instead of appliqueing all over it, what about bias strips on either side of the inner border, thus minimizing the ripples but keeping the red?

I never think to iron finished projects - and maybe that would reduce the issue to a more normal for me quilting look -- I appreciate the other ideas, too -- I will try to iron first --

You are prob right -- I quilted those circles most of the day (7 hours) - and had to add so much extra batting to keep the surface of the circles from doing the ripple - that some of them look like those glorious () puff quilts from the 70's.

I was getting more and more wound up the whole time. I was thinking... "i worked so hard to make this right, now, Im going to mess it up on the home stretch" -- I prob did get crazier than its worth getting.

I did pull away from the sewing machine - and will not do the binding until tomorrow.

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